»/*& lie.v 4 »T l' Uv ,' '4 ^ll r-'-"' .• *p, *1 ,l!V/ -1 Jf The GRAPHIC is entered at the Post Office a' WJUistou, N. D.. as second class mail matter. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT WILLISTON. N. D. R. H. COPELAND, V4- -5L 1 LAND. O. BEKGH, Williston, North Dakota. LOCAL llOUND-UP. Attend the Masquerade. John S. Frazer of Baltic, Mont., is in the city on a visit. Attention is called to the change in Hedderich Bros. & Co.'s ad. this week. The First National Bank has all kinds of money to loan on good cattle security. R. H. Copeland the senior editor of this paper left last evening for Devils Lake on business. Mrs. Newell was quite sick the early part of this week, but we are glad to note that she is much better at present. Some of our young people gave a private dancing party at Odd Fellows Hall Tuesday evening. Quite a crowd wag present and all who attended re port an excellebt time. The Great Northern Railway Com pany has issued an order dispensing with all Jap laborers, and ...

I ^g-IIW^UUstoB ^rapbic "4' (J||f BR COPELAKD & OVEBSOH, tffil# WILLISTOTT 1 a pond, LOVE 1H A SQUALL Bj F. H. Lancaster. (Copyright, MOO, the Authora' Syndicate.) 'G1death!" IVE me liberty or give me "Xonsense!" "We hold this to be a self-evident reposition that all men axe created "Will you be still?" "life, liberty and the pursuit of hap liness," the rebel cried against the Ising storm, and made good her es ape. As far as Clara Cordova was con erned, this ended the discussion, 'hey could abuse, her, but she was oing to sail her boat down to the ar, and noman should say her nay, ['let alone a couple of old maids sug estive of prunes and prisms," she dded, contemptuously. What would he have said had she seen one of the total insignificants making her way hrough the orchard and into their leighbor's study, or what would she ave done had she heard that quiet nnouncement: "Dr. Harlow, that did little niece of mine insists on liling her boat down to the bar this vening. Do you thin...

OVERCOME BY THE DEBATE. Mr, Clnbmaa Tried New BlaS on Hli Better Hill) But It Wouldn't Go. "Sense me for being so late, m-m-my dear, but fact is we was having a dis-dis chussion on whether the cons-tooshun fol lows th' flag," relates the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "or th' f-f-flag follows cons'too ehun." "Oh, you were, were yon? Well, what did you decide?" "Thass it. What did we decide? Jim 8-S-Smith says that flag don't f-f-follow any thing. He says that f-flag always leads. Thass what Jim says. Joe Bangs says that cons'tooshun is mor'n hundred yeansh old and when it goes anywhere it ought t-to be t-t-taken in a hack. Jim says it couldn't by no possible means follow anysing. Good crack, wasn't it? Joe's got a g-g-great head." '"And what did you decide?" "Who? Me? Mean n»e, my dear? Why, I jus' said that the best way to solve per oblem was to wrap oons-tooshun tightly 'round flagstaff, an' then let 'em go into it togesser. Thass th' -way. Watcher thing of it?" "Well, I think if you don...

SliMVilliotoutfraplm By Cox»eland & Oversow. WILLISTON^ N. DAK WINTER BELLS. When Winter wraps the world In white, And silent lie the snowy dells, •TIs sweet to hear amid the night The cadence of the fairy bells They seem to set the winds astir With eerie music soft and low, And gently shake the modest fir SV'/' if Clad In Its garb o? spotless snow. They tinkle 'neath the watchful stars, Whose beams upon the whiteness fall, And as they near the meadow bars $0 What recollections they recall! The trystlng tree which Summer knows, And clothes In hues of living green, Stands out against the sky and throws Its lordly shadow o'er the scene. 0 Winter bells that tell of mirth! Thy music fills the heart with joy And makes a paradise of earth— A lovers' year without alloy Across the fields there seems to come The music which of pleasure tells, And every hearth and every home Rejoices at the winter bells. 1 hear them echo where the snow Lies softly on the frozen ground. And where December'...

Gold! Gold! Goldl The latest El Dorado is reported to be on Nome City Beach, Alaska. Thousands of people are hastening there, many of whom return broken in health. Of what avail is gold when health is gone? Guard your health with the best of all medicines, Hos teller's! Stomach Bitters. It will regulate the bowels, stir up the liver, invigorate tb» Kidneys, and absolutely cure indigestion, constipation, malaria, chills and fever. It's good medicine to keep on hand. He- Knew. The politician's wife was startled by a sound below stairs. "John," she cried, "there's a robber ic the house." "The house," replied John. "What's the matter with the senate? That's worses Philadelphia Press-. SHARES PUBLIC SCHOOLS' HOXORS Excellent Geographical Exhibit at Paris Largely Dae to Union PnciUc. The Passenger Department of the Union Pacific Railway is in receipt of a letter from Superintendent C. G. Pearse inviting it to share in the honors bestowed upon the Omaha public schools at the Paris exposi t...

iM $fe?$ J$f w- $k v, (?&i ,K tr & fs jtt*- BY COPEtAND SM)VBB801f. N. DAK. WILLISTON. "BREAKING" THE COLT. He Mid h« would break the oolt or know the reason why, And I may aay on bis behalf that bravely did he try But all the breaking that was done waa managed by the colt. Combined with which his owner had a hard and audden Jolt. Be tried him with a saddle and he tried him with a cart He tried him with all kinds of tricks to make him stop and start And he would start and he would stop, but with a suddenness That proved most disconcerting and oc casioned much distress. Then, ruminating sadly on the trials he'a gone through, The owner gave expression to this true but solemn view: "X undertook to break him and so some thing had to break, But In the trifling details I have made a great mistake. "We broke the harness and the cart we broke a saddle, too We went against the .garden fence and easily broke through We also broke the pasture gate the time he tried to bolt In fact, the...

r4 '&•••• A tA PEOPLE OF OUR OWN TIME. The king of Saxony is one of the most approachable of European sover eigns. Sir Robert Hart's grade as a man darin is higher than that of Li Hung Chang himself. Sir Hiram Maxim says that years be fore the safety bicycle was invented he had made one for himself and ridden all over Maine on it. With the recent death of Edgar Brehm, the youngest son of the fa mous naturalist, the family has be come extinct. Brehm was 65 years old. The late Philip D. Armour once said: "I am no talker. I made my fortune by learning to keep my mouth shut. When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home." "Love your neighbor, but hate the English," is said to have been suggest ed by Gen. De Wet, the Boer leader, as a fitting addition to the ten command ments. (Dr. Leyds, the Boer envoy to Hol land, is said to be a much more cul tured man than most of his country men. He has a considerable talent for music and is always well dressed. Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widow of t...

milr! you I.V. I 4, BP- 5. ,, Shv'-i- lbr^iIliston#raphi( BR COPKLA.ND & OVEK8OS. WiLLISTON, THEand I "7 N. DAK. THE DESPOT. They knew not whence the tyrant came. They did'not even know his name Tet he compelled them, one and all. To bow In bondage to his thrall And-from their lips allegiance wrung. Although a stranger to their tongue. Whilst he was wrapt in royal state, Their hours of toll were long and late No moment could they call their own Within the precincts of his throne And when they dreamed their work was o'er He only made them slave the more. Although the conquering king was he Of people who had once been free, No word of praise or promise fell From him his subjects served so well Tet none of those who crowned him lord, Received a shadow of reward. Obedience to his behest .. Destroyed their peace, disturbed their rest Yet when his drowsy eyes grew dim, Nor mortal dared to waken him, They stole about with stealthy tread— "The baby Is asleep," they said. —John M. Stuart...

•pCHAWfc [Copyright, 1897. by F. Tennysoa Nsely.] CHAPTER XV.—CONTINUED. In broad daylight, at his official desk, in the presence and hearing of officers, civilians and enlisted men, as the soldier lawyers would have it, a staff official of high rank had been cowhided by a cavalry subaltern, and that subaltern, of all others, the only brother of Folsom's fair guest, Jessie Dean—the boy who had saved the lives of Folsom's son and his son's im periled household, and had thereby en deared himself to him as had no other young soldier in the service. And now, what fate was staring him in the face? Released from arrest but a day or so before upon appeal of the offi cer whom he had so soon thereafter violently assaulted, Marshall Dean had committed one of the gravest crimes against the provisions of the mutiny act. Without warrant or ex cuse he had struck, threatened, as saulted^ etc., a superior officer, who was in the discharge of his duty at the time. i\o matter what the prov ocation—an...

ekr^illistoutiniphU BV COPELAND & OVEB80S. williston] n. oak. AS WE GROW OLD. As we jffrow old—as all.must do— And life takes on a sweeter hue. Things long forgotten come to cheer The burden of each passing year, And, as they one by one unfold. Give recompense for growing old. Our happy childhood days of yore Unlock themselves from memory's store, And once again ye know the joys °SKa had. wljen little girls or boys, Without the after sorrows rolled, But put away when we grow old.. ... Again as merry tots we play And in the daisy meadows stray, And bake our mud pies in the sun, And home from school delighted run Again the fairy tales are told— We all grow young when we grow old. Kneeling before our cribs we see Ourselves in child's simplicity Lisping our "Now I lay me" while Dear mother, with her loving smile, Bestows h$r good-night kiss to hold More sacred still when we grow old. Again we're in our childhood's home, Without a wish to ever roam The dear old pictures and the clock...

[Copyright, 1897. by F. Tennyson Neely.] CHAPTER XVI.—CONTINUED. Instinctively Dean put forth his hand under the dripping poncho and tugged at the straps of his off saddle bag. No need for dread on that score. The bulky package, wrapped, sealed and corded, was bulging out of the side of his field pouch till it looked as though he had crammed a cavalry boot into its maw. "Thirty men—mounted ?—no wag ons or anything?" he anxiously asked. "Full thirty, 6ir, and every man armed with a rifle as far as I could see," said Carey, "and if it was us they was after, they'd have had us at their mercy down in that pocket at the Springs." A shout from one of the men at tracted the attention of the lead ers. The storm had spent its ltyce and gone rolling away eastward. The thunder was rumbling far over toward the now invisible crest of the Black Hills of Wyoming. The rain sheets had given place to trickling downpour. A dim light was stealing into the blackness of the gorge Louder and fiercer roare...